Afro/Black-Arabism: Exploring Race and Intersectionality with Safia Elhillo

Name: Afro/Black-Arabism: Exploring Race and Intersectionality with Safia Elhillo
Start: 2022-02-24T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-02-24T20:15:00-05:00
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by Duke Arab Student Organization

Lecture/Talk Cultural Performance

Thu, Feb 24, 2022

7 PM – 8:15 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Join ASO for a talk and poetry reading by Safia Elhillo in honor of Black History Month at the Ruby Lounge!

Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls That Never Die (One World/Random House 2021), and the novel in verse Home Is Not A Country (Make Me A World/Random House, 2021). With Fatimah Asghar, she is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019). She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Oakland.

Elhillo will discuss race and intersectionality in the context of the Black/Afro-Arab identity.

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